module dependec and ext3 file system

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Thu Jan 29 18:43:32 UTC 2004


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On Thursday 29 January 2004 17:08, ne... wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2004 at 15:21, Andy Green in a soothing rage wrote:

> Very dangerous advice. This wipes out all the installed
> kernels and has the potential to leave with an unbootable
> system. It is much better to use 'rpm -ivh kernel*'. This
> leaves the old kernel in place and adds a new kernel. The
> old kernel can then be deleted when the new kernel works.

Its true, but his single existing kernel is in a very unhappy state if it is 
looking for modules from other versions.  You can still recover from even the 
new kernel melting down by booting the install CD1, limiting the 'danger'.

- -Andy

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